Packet 9: Bonus 15
The dedication to Minima Moralia opens by claiming that this discipline “relates to a realm which has counted… as the authentic one of philosophy” but has “fallen prey to intellectual disrespect.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this two-word discipline that Theodor Adorno coined to describe the philosophical “teaching of the good life.” Gillian Rose used this phrase to title her book on Adorno’s thought.
ANSWER: melancholy science [or traurige Wissenschaft]
[10e] Thomas Carlyle coined the term “dismal science” as a mocking descriptor of this discipline, which is the subject of early textbooks by Alfred Marshall and Paul Samuelson.
ANSWER: economics [or econ]
[10m] Riffing on “dismal science,” this person called software engineering the “doomed discipline.” This person devised the dining philosophers problem and wrote the letter to the editor “Go To Statement Considered Harmful.”
ANSWER: Edsger W. Dijkstra
<TM, Other Academic> | NAFTA-Packet-9
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 14.05 | 91% | 48% | 2% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berkeley A | Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr. | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| Not Old! (Old) | Team 7 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Stanford A | Stanford B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Team 8 | Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 60% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 60% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |